/fa/ - Fashion

spend an hour a day drawing, you'll get better in no time.

its not an optional skill for any kind of design.

>>8087011
Buying software for something you plan to study is as important as, if not more important than, buying textbooks. Don't pussy out of this if it's your dream.

Well all the Autodesk software is free for students but I don't know if that really applies to fashion design.

>>8087011

Talk to your school's guidance counselor and get in touch with the admissions offices at schools that interest you to start developing a plan. That might include taking more classes, purchasing specific materials, preparing a portfolio, and more.

>>8087243

/fa/scist, would you advise somebody to pursue an economics and international studies degree with the intent of breaking into the industry?

>>8087256

I would advise that you should get the fullest education that you can in whatever interests and motivates you. You can find a way to build your industry-related skill set outside of school, so I think having other traits and talents that will set you apart are important. The worst, least interesting people I ever meet in fashion are usually the ones who only went to fashion school and never took the time to develop other hobbies, interests, or habits. I would say I have limited experience with interviewing/sorting through large swaths of job applicants, but I find that it's usually the upper-middle class girls that these schools churn out that are always the least driven and worst hires.

>>8087283

That said, if studying fashion and design really does it for you, then don't suppress that drive and just go for it. If it doesn't work, just at least recognize it and switch to something else. I think being able to really focus and absorb things about concept and design and material and whatever can be a satisfying experience. The goal is to take however fun and interesting your studies are and turn it into a viable set of skills you can apply to work.

>>8087011
>be me
>studying management
>interested in desing
>planning to study industrial desing and then specialize in fashion
>already know how to sew pants and shirts
>have an idea how to make pants and tees

i want to believe, i know ill end up as a tailor in a shithole

>>8087011
is that model considered good looking?
I look like him and I think he's ugly as fuck

>>8088417
yes mr goldshowtiz

>>8087384
how to make pants and tees

>>8088430
well, its rather easy once you have the patterns, you cop your big ass fabric sheet, be careful when choosing the fabric because you cant make a shirt out of regular denim and so on, then you put the patterns on the fabric and mark them with chalk, remember to let some space for sewing and fixing, just follow the instructions on the manual of the pattern or join all the pieces together and sew them and there you go

its a pain in the ass to get those pesky patterns, it seems that only profesional tailors can get them, you can always copy the pattern from an old shirt or trousers and then use them as patterns, and if they´re yours you dont have to tapper them

CHEERS
E

>tfw long ass post because im bored

P.D This is a long post that probably you wont understand shit

HEIL HYDRA

>>8089157
u should do a tutorial
id make me some own tees

Is dope couture fa? I remember when it first came around and the story about the kid who started it.

>>8089389
yeah, the thing is that my sewing machine is old as fuck and i dont have an overlo to make the hard sewing

maybe another time, practice with tailoring your own jawns, buy a pair from walmart and experiment with it, i actually buy at Walmart my basic garments, then i tailor them and take care of them, once i got complimented by a shirt i fixed it by myself

>>8089995
W2Donate money so we can get your faggot ass a new sewing machine, then make tutorials on the shit you said

Thnx kk bai

>>8087090

what about graphic design

>>8087283
>>8087301

thanks

>>8090060
Nope.

>>8090052
really?

my grandma is teaching me how to actually make clothes and my mother has a friend who´s a tailor and she has some patterns

>>8087384
>wants to get in to design
>cannot spell design

>>8090158
fucking dyslexia

fuck u mate, i was drunk back then

>>8090167
I'm sorry bubsy :'(

You dont necessarily have to be good at drawing to do fashion design. You will learn everything you need to learn in school (including sewing). You will learn how to do fashion illustration, and while you do them you will become at least decent at doing the kind of drawing you would need to do. Its a little different from typical drawing. All you REALLY need, though, is to be able to do flats. Which dont take real drawing skill, only time and patience.

You dont necessarily have to prepare anything beyond obvious artistic/design ability in the form of a portfolio; though I would recommend learning adobe illustrator and photoshop in advance.

Source: studying at Parsons. I'm illustration but I've taken a couple fashion illustration courses- heres my blog: http://imcura.tumblr.com/

>>8090618
if i study industrial design can i move into fashion design? i cant really see myself as a designer but i want to try it but meanwhile i want something as a backup

>>8091800
designers are designers for a reason, if you dont see yourself as a designer im puzzled as to why you'd want to try another field of design. Otherwise I'd say go for it.

>>8091882
i´m pretty good at drawing ... buildings, and people say i´m good at matching colours even though i dont wear too much solours, the most colourish i wear is red burgundy and navy blue and thats when i´m feeling cheerish

i´ll go for it, i´ll start drawing some shit and post it on /fa/ on some basis

thanks m8

CHEERS
E

>>8091917
half of the fashion kids here only wear black/white.

granted, they do it fashionably.

>>8087090
>its not an optional skill for any kind of design.
No, it is, but having it as a skill makes life much easier.

>>8087243
I'm not currently in school, and the school I went to isn't the school I plan on attending. I know the school I want to attend requires a portfolio and they're very picky about who they let in.

>>8090618
Thanks, it's helpful to hear this coming from someone at Parsons. I basically have decided that it's Ryerson or nothing, because Ryerson is known for its fashion design program in Toronto.
I actually have tons of photoshop experience and learned some illustrator stuff in school so that's good to hear.

>Like design in general, moving towards fashion
>Mother is a pattern designer and has an industrial machine and serger
>Father is crazy experienced and knowledgeable about working with leather
>Both are more than willing to teach me

Feels good man.

>>8091917
if you're the guy who just followed my tumblr I think I saw a post of yours on ic once which genuinely impressed me, pic related. If I could give you any advice/critique I'd encourage you to find a happy medium between figure and architectural drawing. Juxtapose the two. Fashion and architecture can be very similar, particularly in the subject of silhouettes. However, you seem to be biased towards curves in your figure drawings and designs, and I'm not sure if its because you think 'thats the way it should be.' When you start breaking rules and really doing what you want to do, you start making interesting and new stuff.

>>8091977
Good luck on your application, what really matters in art are the connections you make. Especially in school.

>>8091992
nope, i´m not that talented m8, but i have the same style of drawing buildings, you know, in a fucntional brutalist way

i´ll start drawing these vacations and then post something around here or /ic/

>>8091998
get crackin

>>8091992
i'm that guy. my reply is uhh ok lol

>>8092087
haha my bad, I dont know what you're into I just thought you were the other guy